Native North American Peoples - General & Miscellaneous, Native American Studies - Ethnic Identity, Native American Studies, Native Arctic Peoples

Inuit

Name: Inuit
Author: Bryan Alexander, Cherry Alexander
ISBN: 9780811423014

by Bryan Alexander, Cherry Alexander

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Overview

What do we know about the Intuit? Who are the Intuit? Do they live in houses? What kind of food did they eat? What language do they speak?

This series takes an exciting look at religion, history, and culture through the everyday lives of people from all over the world. Using color photographs and detailed illustrations, each book helps young people ask questions and leads them toward a better understanding of a particular historical era, religion, or culture.

Bryan and Cherry Alexander are specialists on the Intuit people. They are authors and professional photographers who have spent long periods exploring both the Arctic and Antarctic. Their work has appeared in National Geographic, Life and Geo.

Discusses the Inuit and their continuing struggle to preserve their way of life and maintain their cultural identity in the modern world.

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School Library Journal

Gr 3-6-A visually pleasing series entry that dispenses information in an easy-to-digest, question-and-answer format. The presentation here is aimed at all ``Eskimo'' groupings around the world, but the focus of the text and the appealing full-color photographs is predominantly on Eastern Canadian Inuit. The Alexanders occasionally stray into the ``noble savage'' stereotypes in their discussion, and generalizations such as ``The Inuit like to laugh a lot'' and ``Everyone still chews skin'' appear in several instances. The small section on the ``BP Oil Plant, Alaska'' leads readers to think that native Alaskans have not benefitted from the oil companies when, in fact, Alaskan natives have had a positive fiscal relationship with them. Shirlee P. Newman's The Inuits (Watts, 1993) provides more in-depth information for a slightly older audience, while Bobbie Kalman and William Belsey's An Arctic Community (Crabtree, 1988) provides readers with a look at one Canadian Inuit community, Rankin Inlet. All in all, What Do We Know about the Inuit is an attractive, but flawed, overview.-Mollie Bynum, formerly at Chester Valley Elementary School, Anchorage, AK